Re-host bots using separate servers

[irvan-putra]

Expected behavior

I can use the bots at separate servers

Actual behavior

I can only use the bots with the creator hosts

My initial thinking

There are multiple experiments happening in DeltaChat using bots, but unlike webxdc, some users would like separate hosting/manager of the bots.

For extra convenience, the users also can pay for the servers: Pay for chatmail server

[ian]

The following would support the same aim with a different, cheaper route (by providing to run bots anywhere, including on the client, possibly if they were implemented in JavaScript or wasm):

Running bots inside deltachat

Many features require bots, but they don’t require “complicated” bots. I think it would be very useful to be able to run bots, aka automatic treatment of messages, directly inside deltachat: Telegram-like channels (Can we have channels feature like telegram?) can be done with a bot that sends messages to everyone but discards all incoming messages Individual bots, like downloader, AI, text to image, voice to image, Mastodon bridge… will only take instructions from me and talk to me, they will …

[irvan-putra]

Yeah, maybe localhost can be an option, but then maybe separate warnings need to be given (because not everyone like their computer to be a server)

[ian]

No, that issue is not necessarily about running daemons 24/7 on your SBC. It is about allowing extensions which run inside DC itself. Depending on configuration, such an extension will either serve only the local DC user in front of the device, or other contacts as well.

[irvan-putra]

Yeah sure, if the bots no need to be daemon, that will be great.